AiPulse — Issue No. 67

Anthropic announced that its Claude model discovered a previously unknown enzyme system with CRISPR-like properties in bacteriophage DNA. The company emphasized that this discovery was largely carried out by artificial intelligence, while noting that the physical experiments were conducted by human scientists.

Enveda, a biotechnology startup using artificial intelligence to discover drugs from plants and microbes, raised $311 million in a Series E round at a $2 billion valuation. This funding aims to accelerate the company's process of advancing AI-discovered drug candidates into human clinical trials.

David Siegel will examine how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discoveries with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing during the 2026-27 academic year. This appointment formalizes Siegel's long-standing collaboration with MIT and his vision in the field of agentic artificial intelligence.

OpenAI is calling for the United States to work with other countries to establish common international standards for advanced artificial intelligence. These standards will cover safety issues such as reporting model incidents and limits on autonomous development.

NVIDIA Vice President Rod Evans states that fully automated factories in China have pushed Western automotive giants to a "change or die" point. Evans emphasizes that this development is straining the physical limits of AI infrastructure and making an industrial transformation imperative.

Following OpenAI's announcement that its artificial intelligence models would solve 100 theorems, scientists formed the AGMAI group to independently examine the accuracy of the results. This initiative aims to guarantee that mathematical findings generated by artificial intelligence meet academic standards and are reproducible.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on a new health tracking device that has no screen and a battery life lasting for days. Because the project is still in its early stages, a launch is not expected before 2028.

Corridor raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to automate health insurance management for SMEs using AI agents. The company aims to make this segment more profitable than traditional brokers by digitizing repetitive administrative tasks.

The bill proposes the permanent ban of artificial superintelligence and the temporary suspension of the development of the most advanced artificial intelligence models. Companies will require the approval of a newly established artificial intelligence ministry to deploy these models.

Anthropic's AI agents detected the ART system, a candidate for a previously unknown gene-editing mechanism, by scanning over 200,000 enzymes. This finding demonstrates the potential of AI to assist human researchers in biological discoveries.

General Motors has begun producing vehicles equipped with new cells containing 100% recycled nickel, cobalt, and manganese derived from old batteries. This closed-loop pilot project demonstrates the recoverability of critical minerals back into the supply chain.